My First Scrapbook Page

It's time. Time to reveal my scrapbooking pages. Please keep in mind that I'm an amateur!

The following is my first page ever--started in 2005 and finished in 2009!


Cricut cartridge: New Arrival

All-Purpose Card

This one will hang around until I have a need for it. Then I will stamp a little sentiment in the space below the flower.

This card started out as a Copic testing exercise. I didn't have perfect blending colors but I made what I had work. I think the colors I used were RV10 Pale Pink, RV25 Dog Rose Flower, RV09 Fuschia but I'm not sure... The flower (Inkadinkadoo stamps) turned out more red than bright pink, but still pretty. I cut it out and pop-dotted it over top of the same stamp on the kraft cardstock (sort of a shadow effect).

The "stem" is a flourish from Bazzill's In Stitchz. It was my first time sewing on a card and I loved it!

I made a matching envelope using my Scor-Pal.

Addendum: This card became a get well soon card for my husband's aunt.

Congratulations

Keeping in mind that Michael is a traditional man, having had the dream since elementary school to become a Doctor, plus wanting to lend an air of sophistication due to this career choice, and using the colours in his graduation photo, this is the end result. Michael may have been the one that went to school for eight years up to this point, but we both rejoiced in the achievment. I, because I had gone through it with him for seven years while being a stay-at-home-mom, having had three children by this time. So the "Congratulations" is for both of us. (Congratulations text done on the Cricut using the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge)

I rounded oposing corners of the black paper and on the red the opposite corners. Then I box pleated the ribbon at the rounded corners of the black paper around the photo and the page trying to suggest a traditional elegance while adding a bit of softness.

The text here is computer generated directly onto the cardstock. I used a regular paper hole punch on the corners of the ivory paper. On the red paper I rounded opossing corners again. I do regret placing the brads in those corners since it hides the rounded corners a little. The idea here was to generate a "plaque" look.

Overall, I am quite pleased with the result.

Message Book

This is the Visiting Teaching message for the month of February. I can't take the credit for the actual idea of this item; though I did make it my own in some ways. the credit goes to Jennifer from http://handpickeddaisy.blogspot.com/
This is only one of the two that I made. Since I used scraps, each has a different look. I did not get photos of the other. This is the apperance of the booklet when closed. The heart is cut on the Cricut using the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. Three hearts folded in half and adhered together.

Note the stamp used here is throughout the booklet.

More hearts of verying sizes placed over repeated stamped images.

Using the cover of the double sided tape rolls that I kept, I turned one upside down to create a circular shaker box. Inside, I placed several hearts of varying sizes, while having stmaped "Happy Valentines Day" on the backing of the circle. I glued it down and then glued on a ring/border to cover the rim of the circle. Then to the right of the box, more stamps with a heart.

This is a close up of the circular shaker box. I appologize that the image is not as clear as I would like it to be.

Next, you see a flower made larger by placing hearts in a circle under it.

All text in this booklet was printed from the computer.

I had fun making these for the women I visit every month.

More Scrap Cards

I have so many scraps, and was in the mood to create just off the cuff as I went along instead of actually planning out the card first. These cards are the result.


Here I stmaped and heat embossed the stem of the flower on a seperate piece of cardstock, adding the flower with brad at the top.

The leaves here are from Cricut's Storybook cartridge with jewels randomly embelishing the bush.

Flowers were cut using Cricut's Plantin Schoolbook cartridge and decorated with tiny brads.

Here, I found in my scraps a stirp that had flowers cut out of it. It is a different effect. The blue scrap on the left, I used Martha Stewart's border punch. This one was fun to create due to the bright and cheerful colours, and because it is not my usual style.

In using just scraps for these cards, the colours lended well for a Baby card. I wanted this one to be used for either a boy or girl. I used another of Martha Stewart's border punches ans jewled the dot of the 'i'.

This was another fun card to make. "What other colour goes with yellow?" I asked myself. Black of course. This is the first time that I used self-adhesive embellishments of this nature. These ones are from Elizabeth Craft Designs. I then used 05-Melon green SPICA to fill in the leaves, and little rhinestones in the small circles along the vines.

I love how this card turned out. I amazed myself when it came to the stamping of the heart. I used Dew Drop's Memneto Rhubard ink, but the coverage was not as solid and dark as I wanted it to be and ended up having to stamp the heart three times before it was acceptable to me. You can't even tell that I had to do that. So I amazed myself.

Yellow scrapes again! Well blue goes with yellow. I used a Martha Stewart border punch again, and used the Cuttlebug with butterfly die cut. When embossing th butterfly with one of the folders, I inked the front side of the folder. The lighter blue paper embossed shows up raised over the darker blue ink. This turned out great. I embellished the body of the butterfly with adhesive half pearls.

Yellow, blue, and pink - again. I thought that these would be good as Easter colours too, and Easter is not far off. I used the "Happy" from a Happy Birthday stamp, and on the Cricut cut "Easter" using the Designer Calendar cartridge. The vines with blue flowers was a piece cut off from a 12" self-adhesive embellishment strip that I purchased at one of our local dollar stores.

I had fun making these cards from scraps. Of course I did not use all my scraps, and will more than likely make more cards in the near future.

Celebrate Spring

A fun interactive Spring/Easter card. Shake and find 4 bunnies and 4 ducks in amongst the many flowers in the shaker box card. The flowers were cut using Cricut's Plantin Schoolbool cartridge and embellished with tiny brads and placed in a re-cycled packaging container. A frame for the box was cut using a combination of exactor kinfe and scissors and the box backed with a bright purple patterned paper. The brightly striped paper is edged with a bright pink ink. Spellbinder's Nestabillities - large scallop circle used to cut the pink circle, edged with bright pink ink with the same ink used to stamp 'celebrate'. "Spring" stamped at the bottom with a bright green Dew Drop Billiance ink.

I've decided that I like the fun of shaker cards and will be saving more packaging for future creations of shaker boxes for cards.

I [Heart] U

Like my last card, I made this one out of Stef's scraps. I was feeling inspired by this card and was delighted to find some transparency stuff in her castoffs.

The closeup shots are horrendous so I didn't include them but after stamping the heart and cutting it out, I paper-pierced it around the interior border. The pin stabbed through the center was a pearl-tipped pin that I embossed using the method here. The red twine is Martha Stewart.

The {i [heart] u} sentiment is a Unity stamp. I used the double-stamping technique by stamping it on white and red cardstock, then cutting out the heart from the red and pop-dotting it on the white. (The white cardstock was die-cut using a deckled rectangle--can't remember if it was a long one or the regular ones...)

Quite pleased with how this turned out!

Christmas Thank You

This card was done using scraps from Stef's stash. I often craft at her house and don't have my own supplies. It's gratifying to use up some of her spectacular leftovers!

The stamp is from Papertrey's Tree Trimming Trio. I added the letter 'S' on the end of 'gifts' from a different stamp in the same set.

Valentine Treat Pyramids and Cards

Why not have a matching Valentine treat box to the card you give to those that are special to you? Here they are. I made these three for my grandson, grand-daughter, and daughter. Happy Valentines Day!

The pyramids are created by slightly altering the template of making the explosion box base, punching a hole in each point to feed the ribbon through to tie a bow thereby keeping the sides of the pyramid up and in place.

Each triangle on the pyramid side was cut and then embossed using the Cuttlebug and the Floral Fantasy folder.

In this next image you see two pyramids. You can re-configure the base size and height of the pyramid if you want.

The heart on this card was cut with the Cricut's Storybook cartridge. I cut off the little swirl tabs and tied 2 knots with shear pink ribbon on the left edge of the heart before ahering to the gray background. Then decorated with light pink rhinestones.

All three of these sets were the projects used to teach my first class to those wanting to leqarn how to make these versatile boxes. Can be created to fit any occassion - Easter, Birthday, Weddings, Bridal and Baby showers, etc.

PTI Moment

I was going through my copy of Stamp It! Cards magazine and noticed that I really liked everything created by Maile Belles (pronounced My-lee Bells). My kinda style! I kept thinking, "If I had a company like PTI, I'd snatch her up!" Imagine my surprise when I found out that she is their latest "acquisition!" ;)

I checked out her blog today and this card totally grabbed me.


Isn't it just gorgeous! I love it! I can't wait to try this cutout idea, not forgetting the sentiment curving around the cutout.

Congrats, Maile!